Early childhood care act could bring B.C. in line with UN, advocate says

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VANCOUVER—Affordable child-care advocate Sharon Gregson said B.C. could soon fall in line with the United Nations’ convention on the rights of children by creating an early care and learning act.
At Tuesday’s...

Inequalities in access to early childhood education and care in Canada

Tackling disadvantage in the early years

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There seems to be little strategic direction to Government policy on early years—the life chances strategy was never published, the Government’s social mobility action plan did not fully address the role played...

Edward F. Zigler, an architect of Head Start, dies at 88

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Edward F. Zigler, a psychologist who in the mid-1960s helped design Head Start, the vanguard federal government program for preschool children, died on Feb. 7 at his home in North Haven, Conn. He was 88.
His...

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